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[Ben Sgro]

+1 to jquery. It makes working with js enjoyable.

- Ben

Jake McGraw wrote:
> Btw, not to go OT or start a js framework war, I highly recommend
> jQuery for any DOM manipulation tasks like the one you describe here.
>
> - jake
>
> On Feb 1, 2008 11:59 AM, Michael B Allen <ioplex at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 2/1/08, Allen Shaw <ashaw at polymerdb.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> Michael B Allen wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Basically I just want to dynamically insert or remove one element in a
>>>> form. The form is normally just a select with a submit button
>>>> immediately to it's right. But depending on what option in the select
>>>> is selected, I want another select to be inserted between the first
>>>> select and the button.
>>>>
>>>> So it's either <select1><button> or <select1><select2><button>.
>>>>
>>>> I would be perfectly happy with toggling the style visibility: visible
>>>> or visibility: hidden but this doesn't change the position of the
>>>> button. It always appears off to the right. I want the form to
>>>> re-pack.
>>>>         
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> The properties you want to mess with on <select2> are display (not
>>> visibility) and disabled.
>>>
>>> var select2 = document.getElementById('select2')  // or however you want
>>> to go about defining select2
>>>
>>> To turn off <select2> use something like this:
>>> select2.style.display = 'none'; // this will collapse select2 so it
>>> takes up no space and is invisible
>>>       
>> Bingo. That is exactly what I want. It works like a champ.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>>
>> --
>> Michael B Allen
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>> http://www.ioplex.com/
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